>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the al jazeera news hour, i'm live from doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes, almost five years of fighting and more than a quarter of a million people killed, the diplomatic push to end the conflict in syria takes center stage. police scuffle with protesters outside a beijing courthouse as a well-known rights lawyer stands trial for an online post.

south africa's president jay cab zuma appoints a third finance minister in less than a week. more signs of trouble for brazil embattled president and thousands call for her to step down. ♪ first we have some breaking news from north around iraq and within the last ten minutes or so we heard turkish troops close to the city of mosul have now been withdrawn. their deployment led to a diplomatic spat between baghdad and ankara and we will go to our correspondent who is in irbill and how many turkish troops are moving and where are they moving to? >> yes, marteen the details are

still emerging and know the troops are between 150 to about a thousand. the kurdish regional government office has confirmed to us this happened after extensive negotiations between the iraqi government and the turkish government. as you know there has been a continuous talk in the last few days between baghdad and the ankara about these troops that have been deployed and a large number of troops, heavy military equipment is now being seen as moving back. according to peshmerga in the north of iraq we know a number of trucks arrived in the area last night and on their way back and carrying the troops and some military hardware that camp with the troops. >> are the troops going back to turkey or a different part of northern iraq? >> well, that depends on who you speak to, if you speak to the

turki turkish side they will tell you it's routine, reemployment of troops, scaling back in another area but if you talk to kurdish peshmerga forces they will tell you it's a large-scale movement and going back and on their way out of iraq and that was the big bone of content between the two sides that these troops turkey insists they came to these areas specifically to the bashir camp on request of the government of iraq. the iraqi government called it infringement of sovereignty and last week we is saw the iraqi wrote to the security council and has been creating more and more diplomatic pressure on turkey to scale back these troops and turkey insisting they will not withdraw them so the ira iraq is callingly it a withdraw and the other calling redeployment. >> enough to take the sing out of frosty relations we have been seeing between baghdad and

ankara in resent days? >> absolutely. i spoke to a couple of political analysts who were of the opinion this is something that will symbolically take the pressure off of the iraqi government as well because you see it's not just the iraqi government that is doing this and many analysts here believe this is pressure that is coming on from various allies from the iraqi government vis-a-vis russia to scale back its operation and there have also been protests in baghdad by iraqi malitia. yesterday there were pro-ngo to protest against the government and internal pressure on the iraqi government and definitely take off steam and allows the turks to save face because they are not completely withdrawing from the bashar camp but the rest of them who are training these kurdish fighters who will still be stationed in the bashir

camp as military advisors and help against the push against i.s.i.l. in the areas around mosul. >> thank you, correspondent live in irbil in northern iraq. now just across the border in syria almost five years of fighting, blood shed and an entrackable humanitarian crisis, still the war there has no end in sight but the diplomatic push to put an end to the crisis is in full swing and on several different fronts this monday and the humanitarian chief is in damascus to assess fighting on civilians and later today france who is hosting a meeting of foreign ministers to talk about conflict and prepare for another round of talks which will be held in new york next week. the human toll of this five-year civil war has been enormous and more than 250,000 people have been killed and over a million injured, most of them civilians.

nearly 7.6 million syrians are displaced. now, this is the largest displacement of people away from their homes in the world. the u.n. says more than 12 million people inside the country are in need of humanitarian assistance, that is 12 times more than since the start of the war. now there have been more casualties reported within the past 24 hours alone, government missiles along with russian jets hit a rebel stronghold on the outskirts of the capitol damascus and women and children are reported to have been killed. we reports now, and warning you may find some of the images in his report distressing. >> reporter: in this moment of sheer panic and desperation talk of a truce is irrelevant, bloody bodies clutter the floor of a temporary basement clinic in duma and in the rebel stronghold

outside of damascus they are checked for vital signs and a doctor tries to save another child who has lost his legs. the streets of duma are littered with debris and shards of glass making it difficult to reach those in need. most of the victims were children and women at a market and a school. activists say syrian and russian jets were targeting rebels who shell damascus from the area. this latest exchange of fire between rebels and the government comes as u.n. humanitarian chief steven o'brien toured government held areas including damascus and homs and o'brien trying to assess the needs of the syrians and u.n. proposed a ceasefire deal that would allow humanitarian aid in and some civilians to leave, it's also hoping it will lead to a nationwide truce. this follows a s saudi initiatie

to have direct talks with the regime but the head of one of the groups al-nusra front is criticizing the proposal saying syria's government is no longer in charge. >> translator: they are doing controls to any percent of syria and regime lost the power and army turned into group or factions, this is not an army and now the armored groups has more weapons than the regime has. >> reporter: the u.n. says at least 250,000 people have been killed since the start of the war in march 2011 and for the millions of syrians living in this devastation there appears to be no end in sight. paul with al jazeera. okay, we can talk a little bit more about what is going on recording the syrian crisis right now who is an analyst at the doha institute and we seem to be witnessing a huge amount

of activity at the moment with regard to solving the syrian crisis. let's start with what is going on in paris today. the jordan foreign minister is in paris meeting with john kerry. >> i think the meeting is an another attempt by the americans to get what the russians really want from this whole process because as you know the russians have been opposing the riyadh meetings over two key points and one is the future of president bashar al-assad and say it will be decided by the syrian people i e at the end of the transaction period and not the beginning and happen through elections and number two is the other point the russians were opposing actually on the riyadh meeting is the presence of terrorist groups within that meeting and today kerry by

meeting is trying to get with him all list of terrorist organizations that have actually been listed by jordan because if you remember the vienna meeting of november 24 gave jordan the task of listing the group of terrorist organization in syria in coordination with other intelligence agencies in the country's concerned with the syrian conflict. >> this is a process, isn't it that has many different elements, is it do you think pictures like we just witnessed and dreadful devastating pictures we have seen in the report around duma and pictures like these that galvanized the community or is it the growing influx of syrian refugees, people who can't live in these conditions any more and are so desperate they are willing to risk their lives to get to a place of safety, is it the refugee situation that is focusing with international minds and of course there is always i.s.i.l., is it that?

>> i think one of them is the refugee questions and it's i.s.i.l. at the same time but most important perhaps is attempt by the russians, the regimes and it's allies to both their own vision of great conflict because the russian intervention two months ago we have seen more pictures and see it in duma today and arab a couple days ago and russians inflicting so much damages on civilians and opposition because this is their way to say actually that we are, in fact, supporting the regime of bash and bash is here -- bashar al-assad is here to stay somehow. >> groups were coming together in some form of unity to enter in a dialog with the syrian government, is there a dangerous that the syrianness if you like

of the process gets swamped by the international players? >> this conflict has turned into a war by proxy a long time ago. these are the powers that are fighting each other in syria using proxies like syrian opposition groups and fighting each other on syrian soil and syrian blood and this seems to be a syrian question a long time ago. but i think what the syrian opposition tried to do last week is to do its part by telling the russian committee look this is for the launching of our credible political forces and demand of the community and of the force for a long time and we did it, here is our vision, here is our delegation and we are ready to negotiate with this regime so let's measure the meeting now and do its part and establish and start a credible protocol transition in syria

since there is nothing from the syrian opposition any more. >> the police you have alluded to this earlier, the position of bashar al-assad with regard to the transitional process seems to be the point at which so many people up until that point do agree that the point at which opinions diverge quite often how important is the sequencing of this process and does he get involved in transitional negotiations leading to negotiations or does he have to exit the scene immediately? >> there is this sort of agreement between the regime and international that he will be part of the transitional period but for a certain period of time and maybe six months or six to eight months and syrian opposition actually was not willing to accept that and the opposition is flexible i think. i mean at the end of the day they will be willing to accept him with the political transition in syria but most have a certain point of the

transition within the middle or eventually at the end of it, not as the russians and iranians would like to do it in part and end up actually being part of that election also which might actually lead to him staying in power for a number of years. >> okay, we have to leave it there but thank you very much indeed taking us through the various processes with regard to syria today. now the child of one of china's disidence ended after five years and pu zhiqiang spent a year in prison because he criticized the ruling party and we report from beijing. >> reporter: china's constitution guarantees free speech. but there wasn't much of that outside beijing's second intermediate court, police pushed away diplomates,

journalists and supporters of one of china's best known people and someone in the crowd shouted that china's president is despicable and police are doing their best as you can see to prevent the media getting near the court and also has been the same treatment that has been met out to foreign diplomates and many people are watching this trial with great interest. he is a very, very prominent person and it's very difficult to film. among the diplomates turned away the first secretary of the u.s. embassy. >> civil society leaders such as mr. pu zhiqiang should not be subject to continuing oppression. >> reporter: that was as much as he was able to say before he too was pushed away. he was here to show support to pu zhiqiang one of china's leading advocates for free speech and pu zhiqiang was as rested 19 months ago after posts

he made in social media mocking the government and charged with provoking quarrels and inciting ethnic hatred and clients include another decenting voice the internationally acclaimed artist way way and there was this show of defiance by pu zhiqiang supporters and he is not guilty it says, that is enough to get you arrested in the current climate. >> translator: there is no freedom at all. you are guilty if you talk. you are even guilty if you send flowers. there are no human rights in china. >> reporter: pu zhiqiang is one of more than 300 human rights activists, lawyers and journalists began a campaign of political and social decent almost two years ago. china's government routinely rejects criticism of the human rights record and last one one state owned newspaper urged judges to ignore pressure from

western governments, adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. we can talk now to keith richburg who is in hong kong. he is a visiting professor at hong kong university and thank you for talking to us keith, should we see this then but a case of mr. pu zhiqiang, should we see this within the context of this two-year crack down that is being unleashed by president pu zhiqiang? >> yes, and funny thing before he came to power people expected he may take a softer line and camp in pretty strongly with no dissent and seen crack downs on ngo and journalists and bloggers and human rights lawyers so that is part of that same broad crack down. it shows absolutely no sign of easing at all even though we hear words about respecting the rule of law and the constitution but it just goes to show that he doesn't want any competition

from anybody, any of these decenting voices be they from the human rights community, legal community, from bloggers or even journalists who have been swept up in this kind of crack down. >> there is another interesting story coming out of china i would like to get your thoughts on, keith, and that is the businessmen, the head of one of the country's biggest companies who reemerged it would seem after disappearing from public view on thursday. now the authorities are saying that the group chief chung was helping them with an investigation and of course the government has benatar getting the financial sector as well in resent months as part of an over arching anticorruption drive and so keith what is that all about because this of course is one of the most prominent people in the country. >> goes to show nobody is immune in the crack down with two parallel things going on at the same time, you have the crack down on the media and the human

rights community going on at the same time you have this corruption crack down and in some ways they are actually quite linked and showing he wants to win back public approval doing this corruption crack down and while at the same time showing that he is not going to have anybody else in line exposing these kinds of issues. used to be some corruption issues were brought through social media sites and have seen several of the top executives and business men really kind of disappearing and picked up at the airport including hong kong and shows the reach of security forces is pretty long but it's an unusual way to do these things the problem is there is absolutely no to see and going on for the last couple of years and seems nobody has been spared no matter how rich, there is a

question whether xi jinping is cleaning out the enemy or simply going after corruption and has been widespread and i think every province have seen major officials toppled and the big tigers are going down and have to see hour how far this goes. >> good to talk to you keith richburg live from hong kong. a lot more to come on the news hour including. >> we cannot allow the status quo in libya to continue. >> reporter: a push for peace, world powers call on libya's rival factions to sign a u.n. peace deal. disappointment for france's far right as the national front slumps in regional elections. and in sport giants and madrid are further adrift in the spanish title race. ♪ tomorrow south africa which has

a new finance minister, another one, in fact, the third in less than a week. on wednesday president zuma and said the country's currency ran tumbling and president zuma criticized for replacing him with david van royan and let's talk to our correspondent who is in johannesburg and of course we do have number three, an old hand who is being put back in the seat and that does make three finance ministers in a we week. >> and in this situation marteen is the hope that the third finance minister will restore the economy and it tumbled in the south africa as well as huge losses, billions of worth in the johannesburg and served finance

minister to help the economy and due to address the media in the next hour or so and hope to maintain south africa policy and show investors and the global economy that south africa is still worthwhile their attention. >> and the leader of the democratic alliance, the main opposition party in south africa has described president zuma's actions of reckless and playing russian roulette with the economy, how is this going down? >> well, that is the major focus in south africa today after the last week. critics have said that the president came to what appears to be a unilateral decision without consultation without the cabinet, advisors and based possibly around specific deals in south africa and deal with south africa airways and another with a deal that both need approval. they say the decision to fire

the initial finance minister was made on trying to push those deals through when nana was trying to curb spending and zuma has faced problems but says it's his constitutional provocative to make decisions and say they are confident in leadership but opposition saying he should be recalled for governance in south africa. >> we will hear a little bit more about this and thank you for now. vote counting underway in the south africa republic in its constitutional rough rent dumb, violence and intimidation prevented people from voting and two were killed and 20 injured in a shooting andrea made attack. the vote on a draft constitution is seen as a test for national elections which is scheduled for later this month. the country descended into conflict in 2013 after muslim

rebels over threw the christian president. u.s. and canada have travel warnings to burundi after an ex escalation in violence and washington advised citizens to leave the country. on friday 87 people were killed after three military sites were attacked and burundi has been unstable since april when president ziza said he would seek a third term in office. saudi arabia has confirmed its head of special operations and a commander were killed in fighting in yemen on monday morning. saudi arabia colonel was taking part of offensive in the city of thai when he was attacked and seen here meeting the yes, mame president and from the united arab emirates was killed in the same attack. [gunfire] this is the scene in thai on

sunday. saudi-led coalition air strikes killed at least 54 houthi rebels and their allies, five pro-government fighters also lost their lives during the fighting. >> translator: president hadi said a ceasefire on december 14th and told media they will start at midnight and if they fight thai then the war is over. >> reporter: well the international community is concentrating a lot on trying to solve the situation in syria and they are also trying to sort out what is going on in libya. and the finance ministers of the eu who are in brussels have now announced they are prepared to provide financial support to libya to help end the conflict there but the eu's foreign policy chief says the money will only come with a u.n. backed peace deal become as reality.

>> we will work on the package of support that european leaders have prepared in the last month including financial support to the libyan authorities in the moment when the new government would be formed. we expect the libyan process to bring some results in the coming days as you know. obviously there is a will libyan own and libyan led process and the important thing is the international community and they support united in a coordinated way and with all of our means. >> the eu foreign policy chief there in brussels, and stef is here with the weather and how is it looking for the philippines stef? >> very stormy for the philippines and again an active season and thanks to el nino and what it does is makes the pacific waters warmer and a breeding ground for storms. this is the latest and a typhoon

and pictures on the southern part at the moment and looks very wet and very windy and that storm is only just beginning. if we look at the satellite picture and see the storm as it ran its way across the north coast and eventually to the west and almost could make out a dimple there and the eye of the storm and if you see the eye there is an indication it's an organized system and quite a powerful one. this one is no exception and it certainly is quite powerful. it's the equivalent of a category three hurricane and what it will be called around america but here we are obviously around the philippines and called a typhoon but it's the same system just as powerful and destructive and had gusts up to 250 kilometers per hour. so incredibly strong. what it is going to do though is it's going to run its way towards the west and as it does so it's going to gradually begin to lose power because the water and ocean is the energy source

so it loses intensity and the winds become less of a problem but it's going to drop all the moisture it sucked up from the pacific and we will see heavy rain and flooding as well. >> thank you very much for that, we have a lot more to come on the al jazeera news hour including a peace accord brought a war to the end in boznia and how secure is the future 20 years on plus spinning city but behind lavish loss las vegas they are against a prominent millionaire. they haven't had this in 22 years. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself,

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♪ hello again and let's have a look at the top stories at al jazeera a number of turkish troops based by the city of mosul in northern iraq have pulled out of the area and deployment caused a diplomatic spat between iraq and turkey. france is hosting a meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the conflict in syria. it's the latest diplomatic push to put an end to the five-year war. south africa has a new finance minister, the third one in less than a week, on wednesday president zuma sent the country's currency tumbling. now the leader of france's

national front party vowed to fight after failing to secure a single region in elections. and the far right party had been leading in six of the 13 regions, in the first round just over a week ago but after sunday's second round the ruling socialists emerged the winners in five regions and center right republicans have won in seven. all right we can talk to the author and editor at the diplomate and thank you for talking to us so how come that fortunes have changed so radically within the space of a week? >> one thing that was a change was a kind of backlash against her. i mean, it is clear the majority of the french people doesn't want to have the national front as the head of this big region and it was a kind of mobilization, in general the regular elections are not very

popular and people don't vote too much but they have fueled majority of them refused to have the national front but it doesn't change the general picture, the general picture is that now we have a national front which is representing 25, 30% of the population and which is one of the streets big political forces and only one to be very frank is a clear program. >> so that is the change, that is what we have witnessed then in these regional elections which you say are not massively important but shows france has a three party political landscape as opposed to the two parties that they had before. >> yes. we have -- i mean in general we have right wing and left wing parties, i mean the socialist and republican and center party

and they have been since the 80s, one of them has the majority and it was more or less regular. here the problem is that even it is difficult to have a majority, not only in parliament because in parliament you have very particular rules for being elected but that means an important part of the population is refusing the political program of the right wing and the left wing and most of them are in a big political crisis. it's not only the fact that the national front is progressing, it's the fact that for people even the right wing is not an alternative to the actual socialist party and this will mean the next week is a very important problem inside both of the parties and inside both of the coalitions. >> given you have presidential elections in 2017 is it

realistic then to expect this pattern of voting to sustain itself all the way through until then? >> look, first the election is 2016 so one year and four or five months, it will depend on many things but in the actual framework i don't think we -- that it's difficult to say. we have a very important political, social, economic crisis, we have the crisis of migrants, we have the question of islam and on all these subjects right wing and left wing party are divided and don't know what to do and as i said the response is the only one which has a very clear political program. >> okay, thank you very much indeed. speaking to us live from paris, thank you.

now, to spain where campaigning is underway ahead of next sunday's general election. opinion polls are suggesting that no single party is going to win a majority at this point. the antiausterity party or hodema and center grouping will be up against the ruling popular party and the socialists. it's been 20 years since the official signing of a deal that restored peace in bosnia and it was ratified on this day in paris and ended one of modern europe's bloodiest conflicts the bosnian war and 100,000 people were killed and it was preserved as a single state but split into two parts the muslim current federation and an serb republic and the deal brought peace but at the same time reenforced ethnic divisions and david is our correspondent in serevio and

you were there 20 years ago and taking stock and seeing how 20 years has affected this region. >> reporter: yes i was here during the surges when the shells were coming down and sniper fire from the serbian from the hills and coming back has been quite a revelation because you see the conflict might be frozen but so too time seems to be frozen here and seems to be no hope for the future and seems to be no progress and the ethnic divides in the country also seem to have been frozen, they are still there, they are still deeply entrenched and talking to the people about their experiences and about their hopes for the futu future. serebio was the econic heart of the brutal conflicts that marked the disintegration of

yuglaslovia and the longest recorded in history and sniper fire reigned down on those alike killing more than 11,000 of its people and monday is the 20th anniversary of the signing of the dayton peace accord in paris that brought peace to serebio and ended a war that forced more than two million people from their homes and killed an estimated 100,000 across the former state. with such a painful past the question is can the future be truly secure? the conflict may not be frozen but many liberal politicians in the city fear that the past could come back to haunt them. the presence of the past is eating the everyday lives of people. we are going back to the

polarization in the country and a byproduct of the war and in a way they were cemented by the peace accord. >> reporter: cemented too in the streets of the city reminders of where civilians were cut down during the siege and the so called roses of serebio. at her art gallery in the historical heart of the city she told me about the explosion of color that has come back to her work since the siege ended, a siege that strongeled any desire in her to paint. >> translator: we all were exposed to daily shelling, our lives were so simple and we didn't know whether we would wake up the next morning alive. >> reporter: hope for the future is hard to find in this city, the city is still besieged by its past. marteen and i have with me somebody who fought throughout

that siege. he was 18 when he joined the army and i wanted to give his personal experiences to you. and you joined the army at 18. you fought here. just tell me some of the experiences that you had as a young soldier. >> the most important thing during the war is to be alive and actually to defend the state, defend the capitol, as a symbol of the state, it was very hard to do that without food, without water, but we survived. >> now you as we can tell from your size an ex basketball player and now you are involved in basketball here and under 16s have just won the european championships and you've asked the government for help, the government is simply not providing it and this is a team that has a mixture of serbs and bosnians in it and exactly the project they could be

encouraging it, why is that? why has that been happening? >> we have a multi ethnic team and european champions under 16 but actually the state doesn't recognize that kind of project. they are pretty much messed up in ethnics values, religious values, not in the state values. why is that? that is the big question for politicians but they are just not interested and i think the main problem is because of the dayton agreement because dayton agreement doesn't recognize equality of all the citizens so on the equality of the serbs and the croats, are we going to build up some kind of state identity? i'm not so sure but definitely there are lots of people which actually are climbing for that kind of identity, that is it. >> thank you very much for talking to us, so marteen not a

very good picture here and seems to be as i said time is standing still here in the ethnic divisions are still frozen from the conflict and the government doesn't seem to be helping and giving hope to its own people here in serebio. >> david, thank you very much. okay from serebio and back to south africa and the story of the third finance minister there being appointed there in less than a week and can talk more about it by joining an economist and is live in pretoria and this is very unusual indeed, isn't it, and ultimately quite damaging to the economy of south afric africa. >> certainly quite damaging, i think we saw the damage last month and it was quite immense and the currency collapsed over

10% and also saw the market act very badly and certainly this had some damage and had wide reaching effects from inflation to investor sentiment especially what you know about the need of continued investment of south africa at this stage. >> what do we know now about why the president rather surprisingly decided regarding nana who thought was doing a rather good job? >> well, you know, there has been a lot of reports in the media around a fall out between south africa minister then with the south african air waves and a state airline or public airline in which they wanted to refinance some of the boeing airplane or air bus, i can't remember, they wanted to buy a new fleet and because of the deal the minister itself thought it was not a good deal and they offer finances and were quite

unwilling to sign those documents and as a result of that and some allegations around their relationship between the president and the head. >> the whole incident. >> of the airline. >> i was just going to suggest that the whole incident three finance minister within the space of a week doesn't reflect terribly well, does it, on mr. zuma's management style. >> not at all. i think he is backwards in terms of the decision but certainly living a lot of damage to his decision making and his ability to consult and so certainly. second the government especially it's the ability of the government and connected.

>> okay, we have to leave it there. thank you very much indeed but we are expecting the new finance minister gordon to be addressing the media within the next hour or so. calls for the impeachment of brazil's president getting louder and protesters across the country have been venting who was reelected less than a year ago and we report from south palo. >> reporter: protesters filled the main avenue in south palo wearing green and yellow, the colors of the brazilian flag. this is the heart of brazilian finance. south halo state is also where president rouseff workers parties was established and one founder is 93-year-old disgusted with corruption he left the party a decade ago and filed a petition calling for the impeachment of the president. the crowd roared when he said

dilma the country is not years or the workers party. it's our country. one of the themes of the protest is this, a play on a popular brazilian phrase play of the duck and means brazilians are fed up paying for mistakes of other in reference to widespread corruption in government and the problems. kim is a celebrity of sorts in brazil and says young people who are facing 19% unemployment are mobilized both for and both impeachment. >> translator: i believe majority is against the government. it's a generation that wants a political change. we don't believe in political parties or the politicians that are now in power. >> translator: retiree diaz says she has been waiting for change for 30 years and she calls dilma rousseff a puppet

and said if impeached the one who replaces her might not be better but feels it would send a messa message. >> this is going to be the beginning of the biggest change we need here in my town. >> reporter: organizers wanted 100,000 people to turn out on sunday. president dilma rousseff supporters are planning protests of their own next week. south palo, brazil. workers in the u.s. city of las vegas have been protesting ahead of the final debate by politicians seeking the republican presidential nomination and protesters have gathered outside a lukensry hotel that happens to be owned by the republican hopeful donald trump and demanding an increase in the minimum wage and patty reports. >> reporter: a city built for access and the best of everything is on display and for sale and thousands can be bet on a single game of cards, las

vegas, nevada is rebounding as the top incomers have more money to burn but people who make their play possible things are not quite as good and people like these and claims hotels are $14.86 an hour and not enough for her and her four kids even though it's double the federal minimum wage. >> i feel like you know a lot of stress at home, i feel sad, you know. i sometimes have to stop paying some bills to get food for my kids, you know. that is my life, everyday. >> when do we want it? >> now. >> reporter: in the shadow of the gold tower she works she mashed to start a union and can demand wages and who they work for republican president donald trump says a higher minimum wage would be bad for the country. it's a big debate in the campaign american wages have

barely increased since the recession and should the federal minimum wage be raised from the current level of $7.25 an hour and democrats say it would actually help the economy. >> people on the income spectrum who need the money get it and what you also see is they really need the money so they spend it and as it cycles through the economy you create business opportunities and a broader effect of those not just getting the increase. >> reporter: they argue the opposite would actually happen. >> doubling the minimum wage would not help the economy and make our businesses less competitive and likely mean higher prices and lower benefits for workers and many individuals would not be able to get a job at all. >> reporter: both sides say they have studies to backup arguments and for her it's a much more personal appeal. >> that is what they think, we are a person you know and we have a life at home like they do and so we just want better. >> reporter: her boss disagrees

so her coworkers voted to form a union hoping if they can't change his mine for the country they can force him to change in one part of his business empire. patty with al jazeera, las vegas, nevada. coming up, in the program. >> here in new york street art like this is becoming more prevalent as street artists themselves gaining worldwide attention, i have the story coming up. . find out why it was a family affair at the biggest event of the year. ♪

♪ now to new york where an anonymous artist has been placing video game characters made of tiles on new york city's buildings and part of an increasingly lucrative art scene with some street artists are world famous and we report now. >> reporter: all over new york some interesting and unique new art has people looking up, works by street artists have been popping up all over the city, the anonymous artist goes by invader take end from a classic video game and new york city was the latest target of file murals and he installed in 65 other cities around the globe and cat -- catapaulted him up and caused

some of his original works to disappear from their sports. >> enjoy what he does and stuff. i want to see him because a lot of people like to destroy his stuff so got to kind of act quick to see him. >> reporter: 2013 when he visited us pretty much every single piece that he put up was stolen. now he has to go higher. sometimes as high as the build's top floors. graffiti and street art may have started with blight and decay but more often street artists are gaining worldwide attention. >> think of it as growing up in a moment of dentrifed cities and people think of ads and brands and people come along and doing this more kind of poppy i ranic and stencil based and creating their brand and taking back

space in that. >> reporter: they may look down on street artists people here continue to look up at the next piece of art to appear. gabrielle with al jazeera, new york. time for the sport and here is farah. >> thank you so much, madrid chances of winning this year la-league title and failed to beat barcelona and atletico this season and beaten on sunday as well and they are five points behind atletico and barso and scoring the only goal of the game against his former club. barcelona retaining a share of the league despite the league they were not in action this weekend, instead the squad touched down in japan for the fifa club world cup and face china in thursday's semi final. and top spot in the english permie league and faces chelsea

and could be a tipping point for the seasons of both teams and one point clear on the top for now after a 2-nil win on saturday. and scored an early penalty becoming the third quickest gunner to reach a half century permie league goal. elsewhere suffered the second defeat of the season at the hands of new castle and liverpool 2-2 with west and then finished with two managers failing to shake hands. >> do with this what you want. we had some words in the game and sometimes you need longer than a few seconds to cool down and if you want a big story with the police it is like this and do what you want really. so yes usually i shake but i did not today. >> reporter: so this is how the top of the premier league looks and arsenal one point clear of manistee analyster and

manchester united in fourth on 29 points and crystal palace right behind them. and germany dortman doing all they can to stay in touching distance and beating untracked front fort 4-1 and emirate scoring the 18th goal of the season and still five points adrift 2-nil on saturday. japan's sports council released the two competing designs for the 2020 tokyo olympic stadiums and the groups have not been disclosed and decision made before the end of the year, design is 50 meters tall with a sports pitch below the surface and design d has glass outer walls and intended for original concepts and the original plan was scrapped due to controversy and its scaling cost. the carolina panthers flashed the atlanta falcons to remain

the only unbeaten team in nfl and 13-0 and clinched a first round bye in the nfc playoffs and patriots got the 7th playoff spot and beat the tex ands and that is brady and the score was 27-6 win and new england the 13th to lock up a post season spot and top the afc standings. cricket beaten sri lanka 122 runs in the first test andshy larng ka bullied out on the final day chasing 405 for victory, the second match of the two test series starts in hamilton on december 18th. >> sri lanka is hard to get results against with excellent young bowlers who have questions and we are good enough for the top of the order for pressures

and apply pressures back on him. >> history has been made with badmiton and the final saw a husband and wife team winning the mix double title and the first british winner and they head to a gold metal shot at next year's olympics. >> excited about rio and every athlete seems to be in the olympics and win a metal so with this decision there is a lot of comments with fall out but we will train harder and try to get this in. >> that is all your sport for now and now back to you. >> thank you very much indeed and do stay with us on al jazeera, there is another full bulletin of news coming up, right away and we get the very latest on this interesting troop movement, turkish troop movement in northern iraq so do stay with us. ♪

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♪ almost five years of fighting and more than a quarter of a million people killed, the diplomatic push to end the conflict in syria takes center stage. ♪ hello you are with al jazeera live from doha and also to come in the program, police scuffle with protesters outside of a beijing courthouse as a well-known rights lawyer stands trial for online posts, south africa president zuma appoints a third finance mte